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User Pacification Dots

Back in the day, one would type a command into a computer at a prompt and press enter. When that command was complete, the prompt would reappear, awaiting the next command. Sometimes, things would get stuck and the command would not complete. Sometimes, a user would get impatient waiting for a command to complete. The…

Dystopias

Like them I do not. That’s my biggest issue with Dungeon Crawler Carl (once it gets going and stops info-dumping). I just tried to read Apocalypse Eater. It’s a bit unfair to the author, but I only made it to page 2. The universe is awful enough that I don’t want to know any more…

My Competition 4

This one is aspirational. Wormhole Mana is good (at least book one; I just started book two). In no particular order… It’s tight third person. There are internal monologues in first person of the character monologuing. It’s all very obvious. No weird point-of-view changes. There is incremental “what’s going on?” as the magic system is…